HOUR OF GRACE – ROSA MYSTICA

Will be held on 8 Dec, 1200-1300, in the Oratory. Members of the Pro Life Group will be there to pray for the protection of the unborn and the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. Please come and join us. Learn more at https://stthomasaquinassociety.org/ prayers/ hour-of-grace-rosa-mystica/

First reading

Genesis 3:9-15, 20
‘I will put enmity between your offspring and the offspring of the woman.’

After Adam had eaten of the tree: The LORD God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ And he said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.’ He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?’ The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.’ Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’
The LORD God said to the serpent,

‘Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.’

The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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Responsorial Psalm

Ps 98(97):1. 2-3b. 3c-4. ℟1a

O sing a new song to the LORD, for he has worked wonders.

O sing a new song to the LORD,
for he has worked wonders.
His right hand and his holy arm
have brought salvation.

O sing a new song to the LORD, for he has worked wonders.

The LORD has made known his salvation,
has shown his deliverance to the nations.
He has remembered his merciful love
and his truth for the house of Israel.

O sing a new song to the LORD, for he has worked wonders.

All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.
Shout to the LORD, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song,
and sing out your praise.

O sing a new song to the LORD, for he has worked wonders.

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Second reading

Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12
‘God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world.’

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.